1. the more you do it, 2. the less you second guess your creative muse and just write 3. the more you hone / develop your craft, 4. the less you “care” about being precious with your output, 5. the harder you bear down, 6. the more deadlines you have to deliver on – or fail & get fired. And, 7. the more you must financially rely 100% on your placements,

the more tracks you can and will crank out. Be it 3 a day, 3 a week, or 3 a month. Runners run. Cyclists bike. Lawyers argue. Writers write.

Top film composers regularly crank out 6+ minutes of music a day when under the grind. And that includes phone calls, managing assistants, meetings, and re-writes. If they don’t, they get INUNDATED. And then fired.

Getting past the “art” part of music and into the “craft / business” aspect of GETTING IT DONE, is where the professional side of things starts to come into play. You can call that good, you can call it bad…but that’s the reality of it all.

I wish I could +1 / +2 you guys, but the oddest thing for me is that there is no rhyme or reason to what gets continual use here. Tracks that I could have made in 10 minutes continue to get used a decade later, and “masterpiece” tracks that I spent tons of time on sit virtually unused.

Down 30% over the same quarter last year. Down a bit overall. Careful study shows that royalties are softening overall. (IMO of course) Surprisingly, Netflix was 5X’s what I’ve ever seen before. Maybe there’s hope??? Eh…naw, probably not. LOL

A properly produced and distributed album can make around 5000 pounds per year during a ten year period.

That is the most speculatively insane thing I’ve heard. I’ve had albums that were fought over by the top majors that have ended up doing nothing. And yes, by nothing I mean $0 so far. (3+ years now) In addition, the strengthening of streaming vs. broadcast is also killing off royalties.

A risky time to be entering this biz.

But one thing makes me curious. Why do you even need an investor? That’s the job of the library to fund expensive projects. I didn’t read the article. I’ll try and do that now, but IMO, it’s full of pipe dreams if it’s telling you that every properly produced album makes 5000 pounds a year.

Didn’t seem like swearing to me – it seemed appropriate for my post, but whatever. I’m used to posting all over the internet without losing posts. Except here where I’m batting roughly .600 or so – which I guess is pretty good. (It would be good if a Dodger could bat that well….). But please, forgive my petulance. I’ll take 100% responsibility for not using a secondary app to assemble my posts.

I;ve got no problems with that. And I’ve got no problems with a zero tolerance to swearing.

But the phrase “poor bas**** stepchild” I didn’t consider “swearing”. It’s a phrase in common use. But whatever. I’ll try to be more careful, or I’ll just not post anything remotely controversial in that respect.

but i take it some sports networks pay peanuts and PRO’s just don’t bother to collect these royalties.

Oh they COLLECT. Now payout as you have seen is another matter. But you can be assured that all the PRO’s collect. How much they collect is a shrouded mystery though, so it’s hard to know how much we are losing.